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The NSA: My Best Friend

The folks at Alltime10s published a YouTube video entitled 10 Ways the NSA Spies on You. The video contains unsettling revelations about the NSA from recent news articles, citing evidence that the agency engages in the following activities.

Can collect info on people 3 degrees of separation from suspects (The Guardian)

Use metadata to get around privacy laws, rather than monitoring conversations (The Register)

PRISM, a major electronic spying program, using existing information from social sites (Wikileaks, The Guardian, Facebook)

Wiretap all overseas communications in and out of the US (NY Times, Washington Post)